About the Authors

Niraj Rai

Contributed equally to this work with: Niraj Rai, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Rakesh Tamang, George van Driem

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Gyaneshwer Chaubey

Contributed equally to this work with: Niraj Rai, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Rakesh Tamang, George van Driem

gyanc@ebc.ee (GC); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

Rakesh Tamang

Contributed equally to this work with: Niraj Rai, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Rakesh Tamang, George van Driem

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Ajai Kumar Pathak

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Vipin Kumar Singh

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Monika Karmin

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Manvendra Singh

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Deepa Selvi Rani

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Sharath Anugula

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Brijesh Kumar Yadav

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Ashish Singh

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Ramkumar Srinivasagan

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Anita Yadav

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Manju Kashyap

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Sapna Narvariya

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Alla G. Reddy

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

George van Driem

Contributed equally to this work with: Niraj Rai, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Rakesh Tamang, George van Driem

Affiliation Himalayan Languages Project, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Peter A. Underhill

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Richard Villems

Affiliations Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia

Toomas Kivisild

Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lalji Singh

Affiliations CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India, Genome Foundation, Hyderabad, India, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

gyanc@ebc.ee (GC); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC KT. Performed the experiments: NR GC RT AKP VKS M. Karmin MS DSR SA BKY AS RS AY M. Kashyap SN AGR. Analyzed the data: NR GC RT AKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGR RV LS KT. Wrote the paper: GC KT NR RT GVD. Provided input on manuscript writing: TK PAU RV M. Karmin.